My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Thornton Wilder

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
Thornton Wilder

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Thornton Wilder

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
Thornton Wilder

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
Thornton Wilder

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Thornton Wilder

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
Thornton Wilder

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
Thornton Wilder

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
Thornton Wilder

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'
Thornton Wilder

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Thornton Wilder

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
Thornton Wilder

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
Thornton Wilder

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Thornton Wilder

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
Thornton Wilder

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
Thornton Wilder

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
Thornton Wilder